Scanned 35 heifers on a dairy farm outside Derry where the client had used sex semen for a period of two months and then introduced stock bulls. Of the 35 heifers presented today, 30 were in calf to sex semen and of those, 28 were female and 2 were male. Sex Semen has a place […]
Read MoreVisited a dairy client in County Antrim with a pedigree Holstein herd. We foetal sexed 32 pregnancies between 51 and 120 days of gestation with 7 females and the remainder as males. The client was very disappointed as he had used expensive sires to generate these pregnancies. He also aspired to creation of an elite […]
Read MoreOn a farm visit outside Maghera, Co. Derry today, visited a client with approximately 200 cows. This client is planning to install three robotic milkers for his 200 cow dairy herd. The robotic arms will in this case service 200 cows for each milking and the plan is that cows with a high genetic potential […]
Read MoreVisited a pedigree Holstein breeder with a rolling herd average of 10,000 litres in 305 days where he presented a group of first lactation cows which were AI’d using sex semen in the first week of April. In 19 first lactation cows, 10 pregnancies were diagnosed and in two of these animals, twins were diagnosed. […]
Read MoreVisited a client in County Laois who wanted pregnancies sexed following a super ovulation and embryo transfer programme with pedigree Limousine cows. The four pregnancies were established following the complete procedure. Foetal sexing revealed three female and one male pregnancy. The client wanted female pregnancies as the donor cow had excellent maternal traits and there […]
Read MoreOn a farm visit in County Cork where a dairy farmer presented over 100 cows for reproductive assessment three weeks into his breeding programme. He wanted to address late calving cows, the reproductive status of the cows which he had bred and early pregnancy diagnosis. He then showed me a group of maiden heifers which […]
Read MoreOn a farm visit in Kilkenny, a client presented a suckler herd and weanling heifers which were crosses. The client was worried that the weanling bulls were left with the weanling heifers between four and seven months of age. There were 14 Belgian Blue cross heifers in the group and of these, six were pregnant […]
Read MoreOn farm visits to a group of suckler farmers in County Kerry, these farmers take pride in the production of top quality weanling stock from the suckler cow. 30% of the cows presented have abnormal reproductive function post calving associated with calving difficulty or the nutritional management of cows prior to calving. In order to […]
Read MoreVisited a client in County Cavan who had purchased in calf beef heifers. They were meant to calve in February based on a certificate of pregnancy diagnosis. However, neither of the heifers had calved when I examined them. They are now approximately 240 days leaving at least another month before they calve. This is totally […]
Read MoreOn farm visits in County Armagh & County Down, a noted feature was the number of cows with swollen hocks. This cannot all be explained by injuries associated with housing alone. It has been shown from published literature that micro toxin combinations of diets can result in swollen hocks in cows. These swollen hocks are […]
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